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Between drought, heat wave and bad weather, the summer of 2022 gave an overview of the climate disruptions in progress and to come in the coming years, as explained by climatologist Jean Jouzel in 23h de franceinfo.
While the IPCC (Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change) had announced strong heat, many records fell this summer. A worrying development, explains climatologist Jean Jouzel. “It is clear that the projections made by the IPCC some twenty years ago are proving to be correct, in terms of the intensification of climatic extremes […]. What we are experiencing today, whether it be more intense heat waves, more frequent torrential rains, also more intense, it was anticipated by our scientific community for twenty years“, he recalls.
A situation that also makes it more difficult to predict these phenomena in the short term. Above all, if the year 2022 is exceptional in terms of disruptions, “these extreme events will become more and more intense“, warns Jean Jouzel. Currently, on a planetary scale, heat waves can be 2 to 3 times more intense and frequent than a hundred years ago.